Mobile home park fees likely to be increased

UNION-TRIBUNE

Residents of 17 mobile-home parks face a big increase in the registration fee they pay to administer the mobile-home rent-control ordinance. In Oceanside, only mobile homes are subject to rent control.

The city's general fund has been picking up the tab for administering the program, but the City Council, reviewing a budget with a $4 million deficit recently, decided one place to save would be to stop the subsidy.

Last night the Manufactured Home Fair Practices Commission voted 4-0 with one abstention to recommend increasing the annual registration fee for every mobile home from the current $54.04 to $132.34, with park owners paying half and residents each paying the other half.